1938

Manhattan: Franklin Street - Baxter Street

Franklin Street, west from Baxter Street (immediate foreground) showing beyond the future Criminal Courts Bldg. site, the famous "Bridge of Sighs" connecting the Tombs (left) and the old Court Bldg. The two structures will shortly be demolished and their sites possibly sold to private individuals. These, including the new sites rest upon filled land where prior to about 1812, Collect Pond was; This particular task being New York's first public work program. The photographer is in Columbus Park, near what was formerly the infamous "Five Points". View 2 is eastward across Lafayette Street, to show the opposite side of the aforementioned covered passageway. P. L. Sperr,

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection